SPRING-FLOWERING BULBS, ROSES AND HOUSE PLANTS 



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Hybrid Tea Roses 



This class of Roses has the meritorious advantage of blooming continuously the first 

 year like the Tea Roses, while their large, finely formed flowers and delicious fragrance, 

 diversity of color and constitution to stand winters with slight protection, make them 

 best for general planting. 



We offer only special-size and two-year Roses, with a few exceptions noted. 



American Beauty 



American Beauty is splendid 

 for open ground culture, and is 

 hardy in nearly all localities 

 except where the winters are 

 particularly severe. provided 

 the true stock is planted. Our 

 plants are grown in specially 

 prepared soil by our own expert 

 growers. We guarantee our 

 plants to be true to name, ab- 

 solutely first-class in every 

 particular. Color, rich crimson, 

 charmingly shaded and veined. 

 As the flowers expand, their 

 beauty seems to be enhanced 

 rather than diminished. The 

 fragrance is not excelled by 

 any Rose known. Great, lusty, 

 one-year-old plants, from 3 

 and 3% -inch pots, 30 cts. each, 

 4 for $1.00, postpaid; extra- 

 heavy, two-year-old plants, 50 

 cts. each; three-year-old plants, 

 75 cts. 



Antoine Rivoire. Rosy flesh, 

 with yellow ground, shaded 

 with border of carmine. Large 

 and fragrant. 



Augustine Guinnoisseau. See 

 White La France. 



Aurora. One of the best va- 

 rieties offered in this book. 

 Beautiful, large, full flowers of 

 bright pink, shading to a paler 

 pink. 



Bessie Brown. Hardy and 

 vigorous, producing flowers 

 profusely in the open ground 

 all through the summer. The 

 color is almost pure white, 

 though sometimes flushed. 



Betty. Ruddy gold (cop- 

 pery rose, overspread with golden yellow). 

 It is never out of bloom from early June 

 until frost. 



Dean Hole. Silvery carmine, shaded sal- 

 mon; entirely distinct. 



Etoile de Trance (Star of France). The 

 best and sweetest hardy Hybrid Tea Rose 

 of its color. . Of truly glorious form and de- 

 lightful fragrance, while the color is ex- 

 quisite — a clear red or velvety crimson. 



*Florence Pemberton. Creamy white, 

 shaded with rose, with the petals bordered 

 rosy salmon. 



Pranz Deegan. A great hardy yellow 



American Beauty Rose 



Rose. Splendid flowers of large size, deep 

 and double, with fine petals ranging in 

 color from yellow to delicate orange. 



General McArthur. Large, double flow- 

 ers, well formed and of the most vivid 

 crimson-scarlet; very fragrant. 



Helena Cambier. The coiors range from 

 salmon-rose to coppery rose. 



J. B. Clarke. An intense deep scarlet 

 Rose, shaded blackish crimson; extra large. 



Kaiserin Augusta Victoria. The great- 

 est hardy white Hybrid Tea Rose in ex- 

 istence. The large, full double flowers are 

 glorious in their perfection. 



Prices of all Roses on this page, except where noted, in strong, special-size plants from 

 3 ;ind 3%-inch pots, 25 cts. each, any 5 for $1.00. Two year-old plants, only in the varieties 

 indicated by a star (*), 45 cts. each, by express. 



Bear in Mind: Our special or first-size Rose plants are not the "20-for-a-dollar" kind. 

 but are strong specimens from :; and 3% -inch pots — -twice the size of the ordinary mail- 

 order Rose plants. 



